Handwritten entry from Rachel Carter Craighead's Civil War diary. Newspaper accounts are related of General William ""Bull"" Nelson's evacuation order for women and children from Louisville. The cause is a possible Confederate attack from General...

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recreation has expired, close the meeting in due form, and
disperse the crowd. You see the relaxation from close mental application is very
beneficial, and I assure you the gravity and dignity with which I preside over these
regular...

Letter from Joseph Gerald Branch in Davis Lake Plantation, Arkansas, to his wife, Mary, in Maury County, Tennessee. He is concerned that his letters are not reaching her, and he observes, "What is property or anything else compared to one's...

Handwritten entry from Rachel Carter Craighead's Civil War diary. News of the burning of Rock Rest, the family's country home in Robertson County reached Craighead. The Robertson County connection came from Rachel's mother, the former Mary J....

L.V.F. writes about Yankees roughly foraging for food and the wholesale destruction that accompanied this until the Col. [her husband] went to the home where a Major was quartered which helped for a while. She further writes of "masterly...